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In Belgium it's legal to have GPS with a speedcamera database. Mobile speedcameras are commonly announced on the radio too. All perfectly legal.
Active radar detection on the other hand is illegal.
Absolutely none at all.

I drink water, from a tap only, and nothing else at all.

I got rid of coffee and tea from my diet about 4 years ago. It was one of the best health improvements I have ever made. Instantly solved weight gain, insomnia, irritability, migranes, sickness, concentration problems and bowel problems. Felt like utter crap for about 2 months but it wore off eventually.

I could draw a direct comparison to when I broke my leg and was on large quantities of opiates. The withdrawal from this was horrible. The same with caffeine.

It's not good for you if it does this.

Now trying to get rid of sugar, which is MUCH harder.
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It could just be his name, that coincide with the more famous one. It can happen.
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I've seen some time ago comparison of popularity of passing fads and useful inventions.

Useful invention graph looked like this http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2IAWpIwOiOc/SuvD_xiOfTI/AAAAAAAAAD... (example was IT) and graph for the passing fad dropped down to almost zero after initial peak (example was Macarena dance, if you remember that you are old ;-) ).

So far bitcoin seems like useful invention.
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Pagination is particularly problematic on mobile devices where connections are slow with high latency. It's much faster to load a single page than to force users to click though to more pages.

There's a few websites I run into when looking at news on my phone that have a pagination option plus a "Full article" button. I don't understand why it doesn't just load the full article. Getting to the end of the page and having to WAIT over 10 seconds to find out what the next paragraph says is frustrating.

As others point out, I rarely click past the first page when I see pagination because I hate waiting for the load files. I read a heck of a lot faster than a browser can go fetch and render a new page. I'd rather take that time to read than wait.
your general disdain for writers and editors

It's completely justified. For example: show me where in Poltz's long career as a writer and editor that he secretly squeezed in the years of UX, design, and development experience that qualifies him to make a statement about designing user interfaces.

The problem is that editors simply don't believe there is special expertise here or that it requires anything beyond their insight.

I admit that I'm not always happy with the result ... http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/the-cosmolog...

This design doesn't incorporate many of the base standards for displaying long-form web content. Font size is way too small (should be 16-18px, 14px absolute minimum), column is too wide ("ideal" is 66 characters, though there's a wide range). A good starter article: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r/ There are many, many more.

Until that page is completely redesigned and returned to a readable baseline, it's difficult to discuss or test anything.
You can easily show those jerks by driving at high speed and braking like an idiot right before you hit a speed trap.

The reason the Netherlands employs so many mobile speed traps is because people quickly learn where the fixed speed traps are and simply ignore the speed limits in between, or try to "make up for time lost by having to brake for a speed trap" (yes, I've heard and seen plenty of people do this).

This is why radar detectors are illegal in the Netherlands.
It's less pageviews and more reader engagement. You want to provide your salespeople solid evidence to convince the advertisers to pay the premium rate.

While perhaps the last part of the deal is measured in ad impressions, all the other facts and figures are important: time on site, pages per unique visitor, where the site's traffic is coming from, etc.
And I think this is the actual problem with Bitcoin, the community is small and few people are owners of Bitcoins.

How many people sold all their Bitcoins in the wake of that crash? It is indeed unsurprising to me too that Bitcoin recovered after a crash, because the owners of Bitcoin believe in it and so the market kept being rational post-crash.

The real test of Bitcoin has yet to happen, when Bitcoin will be popular enough that regular folks will put their life savings into it.
Bit harsh, but I sympathise with your frustration. The "only marketing" trope is so shallow that it is annoying how it survives.
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Yeah, those non-developer's you're talking about? Most of them have no idea how to change a view, because changing a view is pretty much just as complicated as coding a SQL query. If you understand how to modify a view, you probably can write an SQL query.

The benefits of having a UI to manage core application behavior is lost on most clients. Most are terribly scared of editing a view, content type, or pretty much any other module specific configuration. I speak from the experience of someone whose developed about a dozen or so Drupal sites.
I don't think the two can be compared, since we're really focused on summarizing content. But you're right: summarizing content is a lot of work, it takes a couple minutes to create the summary of an article of average length. That is why summaries have so much value, and also why this problem has yet to be cracked.
This is not an asset, it is a currency. Asset values do well when investors buy-and-hold for the long-term. Currencies die that way - they increase in value when they are traded, i.e. transacted in. A high ratio of buy-and-hold investors to merchant activity in a currency is a sign of speculative build-up. Paradoxically, the attractiveness of a currency to trade in is partially a function of how well it holds value - price level volatility bodes badly for that cause.

As a financial market participant, yes, it is surprising that the Bitcoin market stabilised as quickly as it did since it suggests there was an influx of asset and currency owners willing to trade their value into Bitcoins despite the risk of rapidly losing that value in price level volatility. Having examined some AML flow of funds data I can say this resilience has nothing to do with the zeal of the Bitcoin community, which in terms of wealth is insignificantly tiny, and everything to do with its adoption in trades deemed, shall we say, unsavoury by the world's legal authorities. As a supporter of further sophistication in the Bitcoin markets myself, this sentiment of seeing nothing awry in the Bitcoin/USD volatility is worrying, though the faith expressed in the currency is reassuring (these are, after all, fiat currencies).
those statements were not about specific games, they were about steam itself, offline mode is very broken for many people.
This article is surprisingly good. I like the mention of Bitcoin being the "world's first" decentralized digital currency. This is a clear way to convey to the reader that Bitcoin very is different from everything else. I use the same term in my Bitcoin introduction: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=66

The Economist author only made one error: Bitcoin is not the only decentralized digital currency. Some forks exist (eg. Litecoin), although they have very little traction currently; see the Alternate Cryptocurrency board: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0
You know that most oil is now produced by government owned companies? Look at China Norway Venezuela Russia Saudi Arabia etc...
They have these on various motorways and cities in the UK - and they work brilliantly - once you are in (a well signposted) 'average speed check' area, everyone slows down and does the speed limit.

You could still be warned that you are aproaching the area though. Interestingly these use front mounted cameras (to capture the driver) so have no effect on motorbikes - though the general slower speed seems to slow them on the motorways.

As a cyclist (and driver) I think they are great for city driving, and a much better solution than speedbumps or other calming measures.
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That's one way to approach this problem, and there are a couple companies trying it, most notably Summly. We believe that software-made summaries are not good enough, which is why we down the human-written summaries road!
Where is this elite Drupal employment world that the OA speaks of?

http://www.acquia.com/customers

Just one subset, of course. Doesn't include customers of other major vendors.
> include variable insertion (<?=$var?>)

No disable your short tags and any nontrivial template will become ugly as hell, unless you are on php 5.4+ which not many are.
> And while PHP's is trying hard (see the other story on the front page at the moment) to modernize, the tools and ecosystem still don't compare to Ruby or Python.

What do the current offering of PHP frameworks lack that Python/Rails provide?
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Nobody mentioned twig yet, so I will: http://twig.sensiolabs.org

And seriously, check Symfony 2 out.
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This article is bunk. I'd advise the author to stay far away from fortune tellers and palm readers.
Thanks we worked a lot on the bookmarklet tutorial :)

You're completely right, the real challenge starts now, we need to find a way to get humans to contribute, because right now you have too much probability of getting a "summary not created yet" message when clicking on the bookmarklet. We already have some ideas we want to explore, if you do have some please tell us it would help a lot!
Someone in the comment section of the article linked to a fascinating chart: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb77t0ygoF1qfrvjzo1_1280.p...

It shows bit-coin value to USD, gold, silver, and crude. It's fairly stable against the commodities but drastically spikes in value against the dollar. Our Fed at work...
There is not too much to be shown (as screenshots), as it is basically a tool to help you move windows, resize windows, push windows between different screens, etc... The best (for me) is to check the comprehensive documentation provided on GitHub (https://github.com/jigish/slate/blob/master/README.md), and, even more, to play with the configuration file (~/.slate) to see how it works. You can find also on GitHub a default configuration file, which gives a nice overview of several features. Cheers.
Alfresco eh? I am debating between Liferay and Alfresco currently. Anybody got some useful advice for me? Thanks!
Ha ha that would be great indeed. Maybe the next evolution of the Google glass ?
which summarization engine did you use? Also how accurate is your boiler plate removal algorithm? Can you point me open tools that you use?
Pagination is perfectly fine, as long as it

1) isn't used to generate page views,

2) does not insult my capacity to read more than 50 words at a time (FOOORBES!),

3) is not used on a website that loads a lot of shit on each page

I don't use it too much, but unless the site provides anchor links to save your progress like bookmarks, it's going to be a pan to save your progress. Have fun reading that 15-page New Yorker article in one go.

Pagination sucks, when there isn't a need for it. Sometimes there is.
Adwords? I just typed in "poker course" and no adwords came up. Way different timezone but it's interesting that nobody is trying to get my business.

Also, I think you're using a shotgun method - try everything, see what works. I suspect if you can pin down who your absolutely ideal customer is, target your marketing at them, and charge higher prices, you'll do better. Have a way to increase the potential customer lifetime value much more than the $35-ish price - e.g. 1-on-1 classes for more money. Who is the type of customer who would pay you e.g. $200-500 for a lesson? What do they need? Or run a 6-month subscription class where you guide a customer's learning and play a couple online games with them here and there, check them on video for tells, measure their skill over the period.

I've bought a book on poker at one point and did read it but was not particularly good. I played a home game this last weekend that was Texas Holdem, so brushed up a few skills, bought a book on holdem math and am trying to work my way through properly calculating EV etc. I downloaded PokerTH and run it in the background every so often. What could you do for me above and beyond that?

I ask mainly to help you think about the customer's needs. I live far away and we probably share very little wake-time. I imagine there are home-game losers who want to beat their friends, people who want to be able to play in local tournaments, people who want to iron out a couple weaknesses for online games. Each will pay different amounts according to the value you can offer them.
Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gartner_Hype_Cycle_for_Eme...
@josteink, you don't really understand what good documentation is do you. A large amount of PHP documentation provides context in which you may effectively implement a piece of code by providing "sufficient" examples. A grenade I can almost guarantee you probably comes with documentation, but probably a warning which states when you pull the pin, it will blow up. PHP will not blow up the world, or blow your hands off. The documentation does not have to be "perfect". PHP has changed web development in many positive ways, by increasing what could be done via simplicity using what you might call poor documentation. It has sufficed enough that good developers found it sufficient to build large complex code-bases which they could both build on and make money from. Much of MSDN library is created from internal comment-style documentation automation(JavaDoc,PHPDoc, XML Comments). MSDN will often times lack easily readable code-samples, and provide enough context in which you may actually use a library. Just because you define a prototype with long naming conventions doesn't mean Joe schmuck has a clue. PHP examples are generally not obtuse, or obfuscated to newbies. It's the "I'm going to show you how to hunt fish" and nobody said it had to be pretty. MSDN has gotten better over the years, but there are still many areas in the many libraries hosted on there which don't have "even good enough" documentation to help you to the most basic things.
The limitation to non-commercial use means it's not quite 'open source' in the common meaning established by the Open Source Initiative. (Discrimination against a 'field of endeavor', such as business use, is not allowable under their definition.)
Re: hybrid pagination, I like the idea - but that particular implementation was a little wonky for me. Since the reading area was taller than my browser window, so I scrolled down to read the whole "page" and then had to scroll back up to continue reading. And since it seems to scroll based on scroll events from the browser, I wound up scrolling back to the first "page" in the article while trying to do that and the whole thing winds up being kind of a bummer.

I think a potentially nice implementation of this idea would be more like reading on a Kindle - text is broken into screen-sized chunks, and then there are low friction ways to go forward and backward "chunks".
How does increasing manufacturing efficiency lead to low hourly pay for the workers? That doesn't make sense. I'd expect fewer workers, but higher hourly pay.
These are not all SaaS but whatever..

Spotify, Freshbooks, Github, Dropbox, AWS, Heroku
It seemed really exciting until I realized that it is only available for non-commercial purposes.
The app from blitzer.de (called CamSam in the various app stores) lets you know if there is a section control ahead. If you're still speeding, that's your own fault, I guess.

It's also planned to display the average speed during a section control, but that is not part yet of the current version, I believe.
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@zdw, I actually think twig is nicer :) It's almost identical to jinja.
This is great news! When I was at MSR I heard the rumor that they wanted to sell Z3, not open-source it!

Some context, as not everybody may have heard about it.

Z3 is an SMT [1] solver. Since SMT generalizes SAT, it is clearly NP-hard, so a number of heuristics are needed. In particular, Z3 won several SMT speed competitions, so it has been for long the fastest SMT solver.

You can play with it online using its Lisp-like native language [2] or using the Python bindings [3]

The reason SMT is important is that several static analysis tools work by encoding the program constraints (such as pre/post conditions, invariants, ...) into a big formula. The satisfiability of this formula determines the correctness of the program, and sometimes assignments can be translated back to counterexamples to program correctness.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_Modulo_Theories

[2] http://rise4fun.com/Z3/bit-count

[3] http://rise4fun.com/Z3Py/nonlinear
Hi, these are really great ideas, thank you.

We've thought about it more in terms of volume of consumption for now but are going to look into the users' patterns to see what fits them best. We also thought about paid mobile apps, or plugins for content creators if we can prove them it drives more traffic to their content.
the human brain :)
How did you get all your distributors? Did you just cold-call them, or did they approach you after you were featured at raspberrypi.org?
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Agree completely with font size and column-width critiques, both of which are addressed in an upcoming redesign. And, for that matter, I've always had issue with Slate's UX and design choices.

>The fact is that editors simply don't believe there is special expertise here.

I agree that UX and design are often neglected when traditional publishers work in digital mediums. But I find it odd that you can appreciate the experience that leads to good UX and design but not the editorial and reporting experience that leads to good copy.
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In Switzerland, for example, you will lose the device. But in Germany, apps on smartphones or tablet PCs are considered legal. Only devices whose sole purpose is warning of speed cameras, are banned.
The starting scene on The Social Network. The way they depicted how Zuck pieced together the facemash app. It had no special effects, it was an accurate depiction of a hackathon session.
>It was only until Microsoft got caught red handed shipping source code stolen from Apple that they were forced to negotiate.

Do you have any source for this or are you just making it up? Microsoft agreeing to continue making Office for mac was the settlement of a bogus patent lawsuit where Apple sued Microsoft for having a GUI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
1 cup a day though a second cup sometimes makes an appearance.

I rid of my coffee maker and replaced it with a simple chemex pourover -- resulting in stronger & better coffee. It's tedious and has essentially forced me to go from drinking 12 cups a day to 1.

I enjoy coffee, though.. I should schedule my drinks better -- I either have it early in the morning or late at night.

It's 1am and I'm drinking today's cup. That tends to result in an awful lot of reddit or hours & hours of CSS & A/B adjusting/testing.

As for your questions:
I don't believe it helps me 'work harder', it's merely something I enjoy. It doesn't help me wake up (though it does seem to help with some [somewhat] ADHD-like issues that I have): I merely enjoy it. It's unessential. As for other stimulants -- at one point I had a calcium deposit in my shoulder a year ago & was on percocets as a result -- during the few days I was on that (Yay, amphetamines!) I completed more work than I had in an entire year prior.

Now that, if legal, I'd take in a heartbeat. I was able to suddenly concentrate again and think fluidly: I wrote endlessly for days and felt as though I was completely myself again (minus some grogginess from the meds). Alas, perhaps I should get checked for adult ADHD.

In the meantime back to meandering around the web..
Yeah sure! Let's just call John Sculley to replace Tim Cook. He'll fix Apple good.

PS: the "tape" is awesome, thanks.
You mean you can just ask people things and they might answer you?

I guess I need to throw away my phone, my email, my instant messenger, my IRC client, my fax machine, my postage stamps and hell, the telex machine at the local police station.
Try the Learning From Data course :
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A Fall run has just started (on the 2nd of oct.).

It's the same version as the course given at CalTech and is more in-depth than Andrew Ng's. There is no skeleton code for the programming assignments, answers are made through quizzes.
I took the summer session and learned a lot from it.
The number of users is large enough now that even mobile speed cameras are now thoroughly reported for all but the really sparsely inhabited areas.
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To everyone saying Steve Jobs is just a "marketer" obviously doesn't know what it takes to run a company, let alone his full genius. Now watch as Apple starts falling down.
"Never go to war. Especially with yourself."

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
Our clients know it pretty well - it's all about education. The button's called "revert" for a reason, and it's placed pretty prominently on the page.

When we removed the fear of fucking up, they started learning.
Like solving non-sexy problems? Well-funded start-up is hiring (SF)
About us:

+ We're building the future of payroll. If you love non-sexy, core, foundational problems, we'd love to speak with you. Current payroll products haven't changed in decades and customers deserve better.

+ Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul.

Things we're looking for:

+ Extensive experience with Rails and/or Backbone.js

+ Interest in using a test driven development process. We also pair part of the time.

+ Desire to understand the customer perspective. All members of our team are builders and it's important everyone understands the pain point we're solving.

Perks:

+ You'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. As a result, you'll receive a competitive salary + significant equity stake.

+ Housing stipend if you live near the office, three meals a day, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, dream work set-up, and more -- including copious espressos brewed by one of our co-founders. People are the foundation of our company and we make sure they know they're valued.

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Above all, we're looking for individuals who are yearning to do the best work of their lives. You'll be amply rewarded for the work you do.

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If solving a real pain point for millions of people gets you excited (plus the chance to build a significant, meaningful company), we'd love to speak with you.

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This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
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